Reserved Quotes - Page 13

• An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, White, Groups

  Source: www.mott.org

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• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, Government, People

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• The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

  Donna Leon

  Writing, Kissing, Letters

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• Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

  Dan Savage

  Should, Brutal, Brutes

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• I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Organization, Way

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

  Ezra Stiles

  America, Form, Providence

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• I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Fun, Jealous, Thinking

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

  Paul Simon

  People, Judgement, Death Penalty

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• Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Mother, Falling In Love, Hurt

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• I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

  Brad Bird

  Sleep, Kids, Wife

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ignorant, Taoism, Weakness

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• When Donald Trump says, "Let's make America great again," that is code for let's take America backward. Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. Well, Donald, those days are over.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [Donald Trump] is a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers.

  Mike Pence

  Games, Doers, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Beauty, Boys, Vanity

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• There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

  Christine Lagarde

  Should, Domain, Trade

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• There are nice political formulations that can apply to everyone and to nobody. I wouldn't know how I could be more reserved in my formulations than I already am.

  Horst Seehofer

  Nice, Political, Know How

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.

  Iman Shumpert

  Home, People, House

  Source: wwd.com

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• I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

  Om Puri

  Children, Shy, Introvert

  "Actor Om Puri Had Roles In More Than 300 Movies During His Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 8, 2017.

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• To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Enemy, Use, Term

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.

  Paul Virilio

  War, World, Use

  Source: ctheory.net

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• God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.

  Ed Helms

  Crazy, Mean, Self

  Source: movies.about.com

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